Police: Driver calls 911, reports she’s ‘very drunk’

Thursday afternoon, the State Patrol released details about a 19-year-old Auburn woman who allegedly called 911 to report herself as “very drunk” while stopped on the shoulder of state Route 167.

Shortly after 5 a.m., the woman called police because she was having vision problems, State Patrol spokesman Dan McDonald said. She allegedly told the dispatcher she was underage and had been given alcohol at a party without her knowledge. The people she was drinking with apparently told her she could call 911 to have the cops pick her up for detox.

They did, and busted her for physical control.

Physical control, a gross misdemeanor, is what drunken drivers are commonly cited for when busted in the driver’s seat of a parked car. Read more here.

A trooper said the young woman complained that her arm was numb and she had blurry vision, and bloodshot, watery eyes. A 20-ounce energy drink with 12 percent alcohol was in her car’s cupholder, according to the State Patrol.

The young woman received detox treatment at Auburn Regional Medical Center.

“While (the woman) did the right thing by pulling over when she began to lose her vision, the WSP has a zero tolerance (policy) for driving under the influence and highly encourages the use of designated drivers,” McDonald said in a statement.